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An electric Dash-8 equivalent with 20-40 seats would be a game changer on regional routes.
The engines are the highest maintenance and cost items in aircraft. Electric motors should* drastically reduce that. Regional/small use routes are often on razor thin margins, anything to improve those margins will be taken on board very quickly.
*Perhaps battery maintenance replaces that cost with a rough equivalent, I don’t know
They should be able to put memtest on the boot partition and then break to an EFI shell on boot and Ioad it manually.
There will be a bit of swearing and googling required but it’s doable in a way that doesn’t mess with the current boot arrangement.